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The OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 1TB is a marvelous design concept and one that will resolve the concern of needing to buy a larger mechanical storage drive when used in tandem with a solid state boot drive.
The caching software really works well and by simply using the drive for a short while, the performance will improve noticeably. Synthetic testing is important to measure potential throughput and response times, but the real world is where it really matters the most. In this regard, the RevoDrive Hybrid doesn't disappoint – I used the drive for several days in a system build and it seemed to improve over the course of a day, finally settling at a performance level I was very happy with.
While it can't keep up with the ‘pure' structure of the ultimate performance RevoDrive 3 X2 480GB, generally it outperforms most other solid state drives on the market. Throughput is class leading and it makes for an ideal boot drive, settling right at the top of our chart, behind the RevoDrive 3 X2 480GB.
OCZ rate the drive as having a maximum rating of up to 910 MB/s read and 800 MB/s write. We recorded read speeds close to 1GB/s via the ATTO Disk Benchmark, which really is impressive.
So the big question is, how much would you expect this to cost? The RevoDrive 3 x2 480GB costs close to £1,300 and is priced out of the market for 99% of people reading this. OCZ are aware of this and the hybrid system design means they have been able to drop the price to £389.99 inc vat. Sure, it isn't as fast, but double the storage for less than one third of the price seems like a good selling point to us.
At that price we have absolutely no hesitation in recommending the OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid, it performs right at the top of the current crop of drives while offering huge storage capacity.
We can see this ‘Hybrid' technology getting even better as time passes, with improved algorithms and further revisions released to market. We are waiting for a 2TB dual drive option with 200GB SSD!
Pros:
- Price is fantastic.
- performance is stunning.
- Tons of storage ‘out of the box'.
- One of the fastest boot drives we have tested to date.
Cons:
- Needs a little time for the caching system to ‘settle'.
- Installation procedure might scare a few people.
Kitguru says: Another win for OCZ, one of the best ideas we have seen in a long time.
yay, kudos to OCZ. about time 🙂
Thats really good. Didnt think that would be possible. Is it just for Windows 7 ?
I was wondering when something like this would be released, and it came quicker than I imagined. There will always be a trade off with a mechanical drive in the mix, but they seem to have it narrowed down a good bit.
great stuff. been waiting for something like this. reckon they could make a 2.5 inch drive like this? obviously it would be much thicker in dimensions and not practical for a laptop, but for a desktop? would make a lot of sense. 1TB sata 6GBps drive right at the limits of the platform for about £350?
This is really incredible. 1tb for under £400 at this speed? OCZ really do lead the way in SSD tech.
How do I know if my motherboard can support this? ive read some dont allow for booting.?
Its still a fair bit of cash. are they making a smaller size? 500gb would be great for £200 🙂
lousy drive for money. seagate has similar pci-e drive with 10X performance for same money.
drashek md
thomasxstewart.
what bollocks. 10GB/s read via a 2.5 inch drive and SSD combo for £400? lol.
Nought to do,
I believe that Segate makes a drive in 300GB and 500GB sizes that is a hybrid SSD and mechanical HDD. I’m pretty sure that it even fits into a laptop. Now, I’m not sure about relative performance and they are pretty pricey for what they are but they do exhist.
Now this OCZ drive, that is a nice piece. I would probably use something like this on my media PC for encoding purposes or the like. My RAID setup seems to slow down when running a lot of reads and writes. I bet that this would be substantially better at doing those type of things.